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PHCRED Strategy: APHCRI Stream Seven

Building on the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute's (APHCRI) linkage and exchange approach, the Institute has awarded seven travelling fellowships giving Stream Four researchers an opportunity to take their work to the world.

Stream Seven in APHCRI's research commissioning program will enable primary health care researchers to build contacts with international teams and develop their linkage and exchange knowledge.

The researchers will give a presentation to the Department of Health and Ageing in April 2008 reflecting on their experiences.

Successful participants in Stream Seven participated in Stream Four of APHCRI's research program, the first major linkage and exchange model used in Australia.

The successful researchers in Stream Seven are:

• Dr Sarah Dennis, University of New South Wales, will expand on work led by Professor Nicholas Zwar last year which looked at chronic disease management. She will travel to universities in the United Kingdom;
• Julie McDonald, University of New South Wales, will travel to Canada to continue research on comprehensive primary health care models from Stream Four of APHCRI research;
• Dr Elizabeth McDonald, Menzies School of Health Research, who participated in Professor Ross Bailie's project examining growth faltering in remote indigenous communities, will spend time at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization;
• Dr Lydia Hearn and Margaret Miller, Edith Cowan University, will look at childhood obesity and travel to the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States to develop the research further;
• A/Prof Gawaine Powell Davies, University of New South Wales, will travel to The Netherlands, an Australian comparator country in primary health care, to examine coordination of care within primary health care and secondary care;
• Dr Lucio Naccarella, University of Melbourne, will examine levers to influence practitioners and affect health outcomes for patients in Australia. He will travel to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;
• Professors John Wakerman and John Humphreys, Flinders University, will compare health concerns in remote Australia issues with a Canadian research team which is also dealing with remote populations; and
• Professor Helen Christensen and Associate Professor Kathleen Griffiths, ANU, will travel to the UK and the Netherlands to continue research examining the use of Internet tools for the management of anxiety and depression. 

Frith Rayner
Communications and Policy Liaison, APHCRI
E: Frith.Rayner@anu.edu.au